On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 02:43, Mirko Streckenbach wrote: > Hello! > > Has anybody gotten Acrobat Reader 5.08 to work? It crashes > here on several occasions: > > 1. Crashes with "Abort" on splash screen and about box (fixable by > setting the locales to non-utf8 variants) > > 2. Hangs oder crashes when opening a document, pressing ctrl-f, > entering a search term which is not in the document, after closing > the dialog where is says "not found". > > The first bug of course is easily handled by modifying the startup > script, but the second bug is really annoying and makes the problem > practically unusable. > > > I've tried setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to the various values and running > it with libraries from RedHat 7.1 where the same binary works fine but > none of this helped. > > > Acrobat Reader 4.05 does not have this problem, however there are some > security issues with this version only fixed in 5.x. > > xpdf/gpdf/gv are no real alternatives, as they still have problems > displaying certain documents and miss some convenience features > (thumbnails etc.). > > I'd be very thankful for any hint how to solve this problem. > > > Yours, > Mirko Streckenbach I have had no problems running this version of Acrobat. I made the following add to the acroread script in /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin: export LANG=C right under the install_dir line. It sounds like you have already done that, so I am not sure what else may be wrong. Marc
